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Tony - 14 Oct 2005 13:10 GMT

I need to create template to work with Word 2000, XP and 2003. It uses
references to Excel Object library which is different for all different
versions of Office. Is it possible to create one template to serve all
different versions of Office or rather I need to create the additional
template which will check the version of office and then call template
suitable for particular version to avoid error resulting from missing
reference to Excel library ?

Thanks for advice.

Tony

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Dr. Stephan Kassanke - 14 Oct 2005 13:45 GMT

> I need to create template to work with Word 2000, XP and 2003. It uses
> references to Excel Object library which is different for all
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> Tony

Tony, you can stick to one template if you use late binding for referencing
excel.

Stephan

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Jonathan West - 14 Oct 2005 13:58 GMT

Hi Tony,

if you create the template in the earliest version of Word that you support,
and set a reference in the VBA project to the equivalent version of Excel,
then the reference will still work when the template is used in later
versions of office.

Of course, you should thoroughly test the template in all versions you want
to support, to make sure that no changes of behavior between versions affect
the operation of the template

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>I need to create template to work with Word 2000, XP and 2003. It uses
> references to Excel Object library which is different for all different
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> Tony

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